Surface Area of a Rectangular Prism...some helpful links & last night's homework, tonight's HW

Mix of ideas to supplement some work on the Surface Area of a Rectangular Prism.

from http://www.mrsburkhartsclass.com/volume--surface-area-games

Aside from seeing me play with a box, and looking closely at the beautiful cereal boxes in our class, here is an interactive website that combines the concepts of Surface Area and Volume:

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/SurfaceAreaAndVolume/

Class note from Monday:

Homework from last night.  At this point, they are not in order from the text but have a number:

two versions of # 5:

Pages from tonight's HW:  to be done by Thursday 

(pp.222-223 #1, 4, 8)

One of the cool things from the app I posted above, is the ability to create some of the shapes and see how the volume and surface area are:

question 1b from p. 222